Posted on January 28, 2009 by pookiemd
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I have a very simple way to save the government billions of dollars in health care costs, and make Americans healthier, almost immediately:
Outlaw tobacco.
Likely to happen? Not a chance. The tobacco lobby is way too powerful, and the tobacco states will rally loudly and strongly against it, not to mention big pharma that will [...]
Filed under: Health Care Delivery | Tagged: Daschle, economy, health care reform, Obama, stop smoking, technology, Tobacco | 2 Comments »
Posted on January 5, 2009 by pookiemd
See the December 29 post and enter your practice’s goals for 2009. Include a plan by which your will achieve the goals. The best plan wins a $15 gift card from Amazon.
Filed under: Efficiency, Health Care Delivery | Tagged: career transition, doctor, economy, family practice, health care, internal medicine, physician, practice management, primary care, reimbursement, revenues, save money | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 7, 2008 by pookiemd
One of my favorite rants is “What we didn’t learn…” I remember finishing my residency in internal medicine, thinking I had learned everything I needed to go out and cure patients, save the world, and get paid while doing it. Boy was I wrong. It was just the beginning! Some of the lessons have come [...]
Filed under: Career track | Tagged: economy, EMR, health care, physicians | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 6, 2008 by pookiemd
Economic times will absolutely mean big things for the business of medicine. The amount of insured patients will go down, and the number of uninsured patients will go up. So what does that mean to us, the primary care docs in the trenches? How do we shore up our economic coast and continue to see patients, which [...]
Filed under: Health Care Delivery | Tagged: economy, financial crises, health care, medicine, physician | Leave a Comment »
